The effectiveness of refutation text in confronting scientific misconceptions: A meta-analysis

RW Danielson, NG Jacobson, EA Patall… - Educational …, 2025 - Taylor & Francis
Misinformation around scientific issues is rampant on social media platforms, raising
concerns among educators and science communicators. A variety of approaches have been …

Here's ho** it's not just text structure: The role of emotions in knowledge revision and the backfire effect

NG Jacobson, I Thacker, GM Sinatra - Discourse Processes, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
Refutation texts are designed to facilitate the revision of inaccurate knowledge; however,
studies have documented backfire effects wherein respondents become less accurate when …

Understanding student errors in comparing data sets with boxplots

M Abt, K Loibl, T Leuders, W Van Dooren… - Educational Studies in …, 2025 - Springer
In the boxplot, the box always represents–regardless of its area–the middle half of the data
and thus a measure of variability (interquartile range). However, when students first learn …

Effects of refutational texts and seductive pictures on conceptual change

G **, O Ramazan, RW Danielson - The Journal of Experimental …, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
As educators, we often seek to engage students' prior knowledge to help them learn new
and potentially difficult science content. However, sometimes our experiences with the world …

[PDF][PDF] Refuting a fraction misconception: A brief intervention promotes teachers' conceptual change

J Rodrigues, I Thacker - … -Psychology of Mathematics & Education of …, 2019 - ianthacker.com
Research shows that some teachers overgeneralize the whole number rule of “multiplication
always makes bigger” to multiplication with fractions. The present study explores this …

[PDF][PDF] Development of Questionnaire to Evaluate Students' Perception about Real and Virtual Refutational Laboratory: A Rasch Measurement Approach

AM Amin, A Suhandi, R Efendi - Jurnal Pendidikan Fisika, 2023 - researchgate.net
This study aims to develop the questionnaire of students' perception about the real and
virtual refutational laboratory which is a misconception remediation method adapted from …

[PDF][PDF] Here's Ho** it's not Just Text Structure: The Role of Emotions in Knowledge Revision and the Backfire Effect Neil G. Jacobson University of Southern …

I Thacker, GM Sinatra - researchgate.net
Refutation texts are designed to facilitate the revision of inaccurate knowledge; however,
studies have documented backfire effects wherein respondents become less accurate when …